WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

But all involved say changing the Senate filibuster rule didn't come up. Roughly a dozen Texas Democrats who fled their state to come to Washington met Thursday in a Capitol Hill basement with the ...

Senate Republicans are set to change the upper chamber’s rules, enabling the majority to confirm a slate of executive branch ...

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection next year, fueling speculation over whether he plans on mounting a third-party White House bid and ...

Harris underscored the abortion issue that has energized Democrats nationally but did so by invoking the filibuster, a key ...